As Chad waits for the results of Sunday s presidential election, the African Union said the vote was peaceful amid calls for a boycott by the opposition.
Incumbent President Idriss Deby is expected to extend his 30-year rule in the seven-candidate race, facing no major rivals and a campaign in which demonstrations were banned or violently dispersed.
Despite an Africanews correspondent reporting polling stations were quiet in the capital N djamena, the ruling party said voter turnout was high.
Voter turnout has yet to be announced by the electoral body. All over the country, since dawn, voters headed en masse to the various polling stations to exercise their first democratic right, said Mahamat Zen Bada Abbas, General Secretary, Patriotic Salvation Movement.
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